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White families quickly recuperated financial losses after the Civil War, then created a Jim Crow credit system.

Everything you knew about mass incarceration is wrong.

Organizers seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.

The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.

Inequality comes in waves. The question is when this one will break.

What happened to America’s labor movement?

For generations, Southern white elites have been terrified of poor whites and black workers joining hands.

The famed economist’s “shareholder theory” provides corporations with too much room to violate consumers’ rights and trust.

The pitfalls and the potential of cryptocurrency are explored in three recent publications.

How a group of 19th-century Quakers cut their economic ties to slavery.

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.

Beyond the "casualty numbers and bloodshed," a new history takes into account the "social and structural issues" of disability among soldiers and veterans.

A shocking story about the biggest company in the US's most profitable industry.

My family is a success story. We’re also evidence of the long odds African Americans face on the path to success.

Between 1910 and 1997, black farmers lost about 90% of the land they owned.

In three centuries, the heresies of two bankers became the basis of our modern economy.

Employers pay tipped workers $2.13 an hour. Why? Reconstruction-era racial discrimination.

The billions spent on the Apollo program, no matter how inspiring the mission, laid bare the nation's priorities.

The inventor, who baked the first batch of the iconic gum 40 years ago, talks about the genesis of an American rite of passage.

The right turned Linda Taylor into a bogeyman. But her real life was much more complicated.

An investigation found that USDA promoted misleading historical data which ultimately cost black farmers land, money, and agency.

The shuttering of the GM works in Lordstown will also bury a lost chapter in the fight for workers’ control.

Some people called it "Welfare Capitalism." George F. Johnson called it "The Square Deal."

In the 1830s, they brought lemons, commercial dynamism, and a willingness to fight elites.

When one system of economic oppression collapsed, new ones were created to fill the void.

The economics of childbirth under slavery.

The expansion of banks like Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and race.

If the play holds up a mirror to our moment, it is by registering slavery in a peripheral glance only to look away.

In the sport’s post-Depression heyday, one audacious grifter beat the odds with an elaborate scam: disguising fast horses to look like slow ones.

A history sheds light on venture capital’s ties to the military-industrial complex.